Parents going hungry! – to help feed their children

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THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...
The health trade unions and the BMA are now on the front line of the struggle to defend the NHS and the Welfare State

NHS Trusts Making Huge Multi-Million Cuts

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More than 400 posts are at risk at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust as part of proposals to save £30 million in the...

Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke

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The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...

ISRAEL USING BANNED WEAPONS – to kill children, men and women in Gaza

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‘It was a night of terror, we were terrified, we thought we were going to burn to death,’ said 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar from Khaza’a...

Bus Drivers Determined To Win!

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LONDON bus drivers employed by French government-owned privateer RATP took their third day of strike action against £2,500 pay cuts yesterday, with another two...

Open The Crossings – Let In The Trucks! Stop Starving Gaza!

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THE director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office, Ismail al-Thawabta, yesterday demanded that Israel opens the crossings and allow aid in ‘immediately’, warning of...

Syria rejects rebel ‘peace plan!’

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THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...

TUC stands with Palestine – TUC statement declaring solidarity with Palestine

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THE TUC stands in solidarity with all Palestinian workers and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) who on Tuesday took part in...

PROSECUTE ISRAEl! – says family of James Miller killed by an Israeli sniper

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The family of James Miller, the Devon film-maker killed in Gaza, yesterday urged Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to take a decision on his case...
MPs and Bombardier workers outside the House of Commons where the workers demanded that the government defend their jobs

17,000 jobs rely on Bombardier!

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‘AT THE end of the day this is being portrayed as a trade war, but it’s workers who will be suffering, thousands of them...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (right) holds a picture of her son Jean Charles de Menezes on the United  Friends and Families Campaign demonstration on October 25

Police Killers ‘Out Of Control’

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Firearms and surveillance officers hunting down Jean Charles de Menezes were ‘out of control’ when he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station, a...

Plan Action To Keep Hospitals Open –Bma Urged

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The British Medical Association (BMA) Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC) is meeting today at BMA House, Tavistock Place, London. One of the resolutions before...

Huge increase in ASBOs

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday condemned the huge increase in the number of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) issued as the government steps up its...
Yorkshire ambulance workers in the Unite union striking to defend patient safety

Yorks ambulance workers fourth strike against cuts

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AMBULANCE workers in Yorkshire walked out on strike yesterday afternoon for the fourth time in an escalating battle against cuts and changes in...
A section of the North East London Council of Action picket outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

Chase Farm Will Not Close!

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THE North East London Council of Action yesterday held a successful picket against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, maternity and paediatric departments. Hundreds...

Mass strike in northern Ireland

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TENS of thousands of public service workers will strike across Northern Ireland tomorrow. Unison said yesterday that Health & social services, education boards, schools, bus...
Students on yesterday’s march in Whitehall determined to end fees and get EMA grants back

Police Attack Peaceful March

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TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...

Greek Seafarers National Strike!

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GREEK seafarers of the PENEN trade union (deck hands) staged a most important national strike last Thursday morning against a government Bill which wipes...
BMA delegates show their opposition en masse to NHS privatisation at their Annual Representative Meeting in Liverpool yesterday

‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...
Protesters outside Downing Street on July 11 condemned Israeli war crimes against Lebanon – Amnesty International has said Israel bombed  civilians deliberately

Israel in crisis over failed war

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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is under pressure to authorise an independent commission of inquiry into the conduct of the recently failed war in...
Immigrant workers marching in Athens during Thursday’s one-day strike

One Million Strike In Greece

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...
Greek secondary school teachers march in Athens – banner reads ‘We want proper jobs-no to flexible working conditions-slavery has ended!’

Greek Riot Police Attack March

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GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...

Labour To Charge May With Contempt Of Parliament!

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All opposition parties in the House of Commons plan to join forces today in a bid to force the government to publish the full...
Students on the NUS and UCU joint demonstration last November – they oppose the Tory move to charge different fees at each and every university dependent on the ‘quality of education’

Parents remortgage to pay uni fees

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PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...

RMT pickets call for general strike!

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MICK LYNCH issued a defiant message from the RMT picket line at Euston Station in central London yesterday morning, saying: ‘I’ve just heard Huw...
ISMAIL HANIYEH in Tehran where he attended the inaugauration of Iranian president MASOUD PEZESHKIAN (right)

Israeli terror regime assassinates Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

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MASS demonstrations were held across Palestine and throughout the Arab world yesterday after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian...

NHS registration fee – 18% hike opposed

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A 38,000-STRONG petition was handed in to the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) in Kennington, south London at midday yesterday, protesting at the...

Two British soldiers killed in Sangin Valley

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Two British soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday night, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday. A third soldier is in a critical...

Israel Attacks Gaza Flotilla! – Italian Navy Intervenes!

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ISRAEL launched multiple intimidatory attacks on ten ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla overnight on Tuesday night-yesterday morning, while they were sailing 30 nautical...

5th day of Haitian protests rage

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A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...

GLOBAL MOBILISATION! – Hamas calls Friday-Sunday action against genocide

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THE HAMAS Movement has called for intensified global mobilisation to Israel’s genocide and starvation war against the Palestinian people referring to the ongoing Israeli...

FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies

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THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...

Trump – more Iran sanctions – urges NATO involvement!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP told a White House Press conference yesterday afternoon that while he was president of the USA, Iran would never be able to...

Islamic Republic defending its territory

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THE Islamic Republic’s first and foremost priority is a ‘decisive and firm’ battle to defend its territory against the ongoing unprovoked US-Israeli war of...

Cameron must resign! – demands John Mann MP after tax haven scandal

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LABOUR MP John Mann yesterday called for PM Cameron to resign in light of the ongoing scandal regarding Cameron’s father’s offshore bank account, exposed...
Blackpool Health Unison members on the 500,000-strong TUC march against cuts on March 26

‘a Smokescreen For Wholesale Privatisation’

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Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...

Hamas Rejects Israeli Gaza ‘Conquest’ Threat

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‘HAMAS rejects Israel’s Gaza conquest threats’, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi declared yesterday after Israel announced plans for the ‘conquest’ and indefinite occupation of...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers speak with their TGWU shop steward outside the Heathrow plant at the weekend. They have been locked  out since August 10, demanding full reinstatement on their original terms and conditions

We want action not words from TUC

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers, boosted by their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton on Monday, are calling for immediate reinstatement or action to...

BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT

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RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...
Greek workers battle with riot police

Greece under Franco- German occupation!

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THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...

Israel breaching ceasefire deal – only 10% of shelter gets in as storms...

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ISRAEL is violating the terms of the ceasefire by not allowing the agreed minimum amount of aid to enter the enclave, Gaza’s Government Media...

NATIONALISE JLR AND CORUS – the only way to defend jobs

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Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...
Mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning – the day the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward was due for closure, putting children’s lives into jeopardy

Ealing mass picket condemns the closure of Children’s Ward

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A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...
Demonstration outside University College London Hospitals Trust insisting that the NHS is not for sale

ACCEPT PRIVATISATION OR BE SACKED! NW London NHS pathology staff told

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THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...

Back to the workhouse! – new Tory policy for unemployed

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THE Tory coalition yesterday launched their latest scheme to drive unemployed people off benefits. The scheme, cynically entitled ‘Help to Work’, targets ‘long-term unemployed’ people...